... Among the oldest of all the weapons of war, and among the least publicised, the mine is still going strong on both land and sea. It is a weapon peculiarly dear to the German mentality. Mines are essentially such simple devices that a large number of changes can be rung in the method of func tioning. Some are designed to be projected waist or shoulder high by a small charge of explosive, so ...

... ^/ith heavy fighting taking place all along the line in Italy, striking pictures are now coming through to show the nature of the sanguinary battles in which the Fifth and Eighth Armies have been engaged. Some of them are reproduced on these and the succeeding pages The Gustav Line no longer exists it has been cracked wide open and thrust aside. The Hitler Line is going-- if, indeed, it has ...

... Dritish sappers, officers and men, played an heroic part in the bridge- building which was the key to success in the opening stages of the Rapido battle. On the first night of the offensive all efforts to construct one particular tank-carrying bridge across the 75-ft. span of the river had ended .in failure. Many casualties had been inflicted upon the sappers by enemy mortars, machine-guns and ...

... THE claims put forward- by which the U.S.S.R., the British Commonwealth, the United States and China should together form a super- World Council in fact if not in name, may not be acceptable to many of the remainder of articulate mankind. But what a fine job the four could do if they sincerely and genuinely got together over the international drug traffic. Therer would not be much jibbing at ...

... HOW THE BEACHHEAD PREPARED FOR THE GREAT ADVANCE Huge stocks of food being handled at an Army Supply Depot, in preparation for the link-up between the Beachhead forces and the Fifth Army THE TOWN OF PONTECORVO AFTER ITS CAPTURE BY THE EIGHTH ARMY the Germans were forced to evacuate this keypoint and to draw back north-west along the Liri Valley as a result of the penetration of the Hitler Line ...

... THE COMBINED OPERATIONS CHAPLAINS MEET A conference of Navy and Army Chaplains who are serving Combined Operations personnel and Commando Units was held recently under the direction of their Senior Chaplain, the Rev. B. G. Beale, R.N. Speakers at the Conference were the Chaplain of the Fleet, the Second Sea Lord, the General Officer Commanding Commando Units and the Director of Combined ...

... FEW people realise that not a single photograph of British troops in action overseas has been taken by British civilian Press photographers. All of them are the work of the Army Film and Photo graphic Service, a small unit which wears A.F.P.U. as a shoulder-flash and numbers about 100 officers and men on active service. The men, incidentally, are all sergeants and were newspaper photographers ...

... FASHION DISPLAYS BY PARATROOPS Two pictures taken in England at a base of Troop Carrier Command, showing the manner in which some of the skyborne soldiers adorned themselves for invasion. The two Americans on the right are using a Red Indian technique for head and hair THE NAVY'S KITCHEN OFF THE LANDING BEACHES Crews of small craft lining up on the barge for the hot midday meal, served through ...

... As stated in a recent issue of The Sphere, the R.A.F. have been using rocket-firing aircraft against the Germ ins since last June although this news was withheld, for security reasons, until quite recently. It can now be stated further that the rocket-firine aircraft operate bv mailt as well as bv day. During the terrific pound ng of the northern coast of France in the days and weeks which ...

... The expected invasion of the Allies some where on the West has greatly occupied the attention of the German military authori ties ever since the autumn of 1942, when the great Atlantic defensive wall was being constructed. The tremendous area to be defended, from Norway to the Bay of Biscay, made the task a gigantic one, but by using the enforced labour of the occupied countries, Hitler was ...

... WHEN the genuine espionage books relating to this war are in due course published, they will be followed by an international spate of concocted revelations, semi-fiction and honest fiction, and I have been wondering whether it will be a more colourful and exciting yarn, in the round, than it was last time. Without pressing in order to try and make one's point, there have undoubtedly been ...

... Situated in the moun tains, the cabin in which the Partisan Leader lives is difficult for visitors to locate. It is reached by a steep path cut out of the mountain-side, and the visitor is subjected to a critical examination by the Partisan Guards A NEW PORTRAIT OF MARSHAL TITO taken recently in Yugoslavia. With him is his favourite pet a German police dog which answers to the name of Tiger ...